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| Title | Getting Things Right: Ontology And Epistemology In Smart Cities Research |
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| ID_Doc | 28021 |
| Authors | Visvizi A.; Troisi O.; Grimaldi M.; Kozłowski K. |
| Year | 2023 |
| Published | Springer Proceedings in Complexity |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19560-0_14 |
| Abstract | The increasing pace of urbanization is posing multi-scalar challenges to cities and urban ecosystems worldwide. Sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) has a pervasive influence on society, and ICT-enhanced solutions impact every aspect of our lives. In the urban context, this results in an, usually incremental, evolution of cities into smart cities. This, one of its kind, digital transformation, influences all facets of a city’s functioning. Interestingly, in the otherwise rich body of research on smart cities, enquiries into business activity, innovation, competitiveness, seen especially as a function of economic growth, have been largely overlooked. Clearly, however, in a smart city there is a close positive relationship between ICT-based solutions, innovation, competitiveness, economic growth, and a thriving business sector. The ability to define and delineate the related to these concepts research field and the ability to recognize the mechanisms that underpin the relationships that unfold among the objects populating that field, bears the promise of identifying the gaps that exists in the literature, as well as the tools and strategies decision-makers may embark on to improve the functioning of a smart city. This paper delves into these issues. The value added of this paper is three-fold. First, it justifies the need to engage with the question of economic performance in the smart city. Second, it represents a rare attempt to add some metatheoretical order to the, at times unruly, smart city debate. Third, it highlights the new research avenues that need to be explored. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. |
| Author Keywords | Business sector; Competitiveness; Economic activity; Epistemology; Ontology; Smart city |
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